Meridian, the upscale restaurant embedded in Dallas development The Village, will reopen Oct. 17, 2025.
The restaurant had been temporarily closed while executive chef Eduardo Osorio reimagined the modern American menu, with dishes like duck breast with spiced fig ($42), wood-fired half chicken ($36), winter squash gnocchi ($22) and lamb Bolognese ($27).
Meridian’s cooking will center around the hearth, an open fire grill that imparts smoke on protein and vegetables.
The restaurant originated in 2021 as a modern Brazilian restaurant from Dallas chef Junior Borges, who spent half of his life in South America and half of his life in North America. His menu was particularly focused on a chef’s interpretation of Brazilian ingredients, like fermented tapioca flour, toasted cassava flour and farofa. When Borges left The Village, we wondered how the restaurant named for his journey from south to north could continue.
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Current executive chef Osorio started working at Meridian before it closed in August 2024. He stayed on, working with The Village’s other food and beverage concepts, as Meridian was reimagined.
Meridian’s menu includes “one-hitters,” or one-person bites priced $4 to $7 each. Here’s the ham hock croquette.
Dan Padgett
The restaurant often seemed in flux as The Village experimented with how to entice Dallasites into its enclave. The Village’s newish street of restaurants and bars is hidden from nearby East Dallas thoroughfares Northwest Highway, Skillman Street and Greenville Avenue.
The new Meridian “is about bringing people in more often,” said Brandy Spence, vice president of food and beverage for The Village, in a statement: “for cocktails after work, for dinner with friends or for celebrating with family.”
For Meridian’s relaunch, some of the spirit of the original restaurant remains, like the Daily Bread ($12): house-made baked goods to start a meal. Also, the restaurant’s Pork Ragu Verde ($23) is similar to Meridian’s original Fusilli Verde.
The new menu, however, feels a little glitzier. One example: The foie gras cornbread ($22), has an option to add caviar for an extra $12.
Blue prawn toast ($18) is a shareable appetizer at Meridian in Dallas.
Dan Padgett
The main menu includes five pastas, seven entrees and three steaks. (The previous Meridian menu had just one steak, a Brazilian cut.) Meridian’s steak options today include a Texas Wagyu chef’s cut with au poivre butter ($49), a 20-ounce dry-aged rib-eye with bordelaise ($99), and a 45-ounce dry-aged tomahawk to share (listed at “market price”).
Notably, Meridian will sell a Sunday Supper that feeds three to four people for $99 total — a steal for a sit-down dinner these days. It includes fried chicken, cornbread, pimento grits, broccolini and a dessert of your choice. Meridian will send 20% of Sunday Supper sales to Meat Fight, a nonprofit that supports Multiple Sclerosis research.
Meridian’s cornbread ($22) is topped with foie gras. For an additional $12, diners can add caviar.
Dan Padgett
The cocktail menu has been redone, as well. Options include an “extroverted” Old-Fashioned for $20 and an espresso martini with truffle for $17. Three mocktails are also available for $9 each.
Bringing back a tradition from the past, happy hour calls for lower-priced drinks and a $14 burger. The burger is not the same recipe as Meridian’s former X-Tudo offered at happy hour. This one is a beef patty with gruyere, caramelized onions, herb remoulade and tableside bordelaise. It’s called the Buzzed and Aged burger because it comes with the option of a Buzz Button, an edible flower that makes your mouth tingle.
Meridian seats just over 150 people. Its private dining room can host 50 seated guests.
Meridian is at 5605 Village Glen Drive, Dallas. It opens Oct. 17, 2025. Dinner only, closed Mondays. Happy hour runs 4:30 to 6 p.m., Tuesdays through Fridays, in the bar and lounge only. Dinner reservations available on OpenTable.